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2015 (4) TMI 63 - DELHI HIGH COURTConstitutional validity of certain regulations of the Competition Commission of India (General) Regulations, 2009 - Violation of Article 14 of the Constitution of India - Held that:- Today and in fact even at the time when the present writ petition came up first, CompAT was/is functioning and the appeal if preferred by the petitioner to CompAT would have been taken up for hearing along with the application for interim relief which would have been filed therewith. Thus this petition cannot be compared with other petitions in the batch, interim relief wherein came to be granted in the circumstances - If the same interim order were to be extended to this petition as well as all other petitions which may also be filed impugning the provisions of the Competition Act and the Regulations thereunder, the same would lead to none approaching CompAT, thereby making CompAT non-functional. In these petitions, are not concerned with the challenge even if made to the merits of the order of the CCI as indeed we cannot be and had clarified so at the initial hearing only. In the hearing till now also, none of the counsels has made arguments on the merits of the order of the CCI. The hearing in these petitions is confined to the challenge to certain provisions of the Act and the Regulations thereunder and to the query raised by us in the order dated 30th September, 2014 supra. We do not see any reason for multiplying the petitions. If the said challenge is to succeed, the judgment would bind all those covered thereby. - Thus merely on the ground of having made the same challenge, the persons aggrieved from the orders of the CCI cannot avoid approaching CompAT which as aforesaid is now functional or from seeking the interim relief from CompAT - Decided against appellant.
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